Eyeshield



Marh 13, 1951 R, AS 2,545,097

EYESHIELD Filed Dec. 19', 1947 George R. Lucas Fig 2 INVENTOR.

BY adynvyvm Patented Mar. 13, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,545,097EYESHIELD George R. Lucas, Detroit, Mich., assignor of fifty per cent toRaymond H. McLeod, Detroit, Mich.

Application December 19, 1947, Serial No. 792,745

2 Claims. (01. 2-12) This invention relates to new and usefulimprovements in eyeshields and the primary object of the presentinvention is to provide a printed program for athletic events andincluding an eyeshield carried by said program and separable therefrom.

Another important object of the present invention is to provide acombination program and eyeshield so designed as to facilitate theeyeshield to be quickly and readily separated from the program in aconvenient manner to be applied in a comfortable manner uponthe'forehead of a wearer.

Afurther object of the present invention is to provide a combinationprogram and eyeshield that is extremely neat and attractive inappearance and which will shield a users eyes and provide the user witha program indicating-the interesting features of a sport event.

'A still further aim of the present invention is to provide acombination program and eyeshield that is small and compact inconstruction, reliabl and practical in use, relatively inexpensive tomanufacture, and otherwise well" adapted for the purposes for which thesame is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction andoperation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein likenumerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the present eyeshield applied to ausers head;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank forming the present invention; and,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the eyeshield portion of the presentinvention.

Referring now .to the drawings in detail, wherein for the purpose ofillustration, there is disclosed a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention, the numeral I represents a substantially rectangular sheet ofmaterial such as paper, cardboard or the like having suitable indiciaprinted on either or both faces to provide a program for a suitableathletic event. Adjacent one transverse edge l2 of the sheet of material10, there is provided a transverse, perforated tear line l4 to provide asubstantially rectangular portion 16 that forms the eyeshield of thepresent in- 2 28 that slidably engage an endless, resilient head band30. I

In practical use of the device, the portion I6 is torn from" the sheetof material l0 along the tear line [4 and the lines 20 are also torn toprovide a plurality of tabs 32 that are turned outwardly to comfortablybear against a users forehead as shown best in Figure 1 of the drawmgs.

In view of the foregoing description taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings it is believed that a clear understanding of thedevice will be quite apparent to those skilled in this art. A moredetailed description is accordingly deemed unnecessary.

It is to be understood, however, that even though there is herein shownand described a preferred embodiment of the invention the same issusceptible to certain changes fully comprehended by the spirit of theinvention as herein described and the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An eyeshield comprising a substantially rectangular blank of flexiblematerial'having inner and outer longitudinal edges, a pair fqfsubstantially U-shaped clips having their ends fixed to said materialadjacent the inner longitudinal edge of said material, the webs of saidU shaped clips being spaced from the inner longitudinal edge of saidmaterial, a plurality of spaced parallel tear lines provided in thematerial and extending from and perpendicular to the inner longitudinaledge of said material and constituting forehead contacting tabs, and anendless elastic band trained about said clips and having spaced portionsdisposed between the webs of said clips and the inner longitudinal edgeof said material.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said tear lines include inner endportions, the inner end portions of said tear lines lying in an arcuateGEORGE R. LUCAS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS vention which is indicated generally by the NumberName Date numeral l8. 1,030,173 Haggerty June 18, 1912 A plurality oftransversely spaced longitudinal 1,599,576 Mahoney Sept. 14, 1926 tearlines 20 are provided in the transverse edge 2,009,855 Osmer Jul 30,1935 [2 of the portiont l6 and the inner ends 22 of the 2,033,691Douglass Mar. 10, 1936 lines 20 termina e in an arcuate plane which isindicated by the section line 24. FOREIGN PATENTS Fixed to the portion16, adjacent the transverse Number Country Date edge I2, is a pair ofspaced U-shaped clips 26 and 96,4:54v Sweden Aug. 8, 1939

